Oh Glee! You are so so inconsistent. And yet oh so heartbreaking that I can forgive you for all the times I have pulled strands of my hair out because of you.
I watch a lot of TV and then I read a LOT about what I watch. I'm a geek like that. But anyway, I don't usually write about what I watch. I write a lot about the kind of music I like but somehow writing about the TV shows and movies I watch just hasn't happened.
Today however, as I watched the latest episode of Glee something about it just made me feel like writing. It was such a wildly inconsistent episode-with some things making sense and others just.. not. But it got me thinking further into why I watch it at all. A show like Glee can be so frustrating at times: It's a show with a popular format, it's got the ratings in its favour and it's also trying valiantly to do something new and fresh. It takes many many risks. But when it fails to do consistent story telling and bends to gimmicky plot contrivances I feel like hurling something at the screen. I really do.Because a show like Glee seems premised on a certain level of honesty or transparency with its audience so when it blatantly fails on its promise it's doubly disappointing. So at times like these I really do question why I bother with a show that isn't consistently satisfying.
Tonight I got a little glimpse into one of the reasons why I watch this show when in last night's episode "Sexy" I watched Santana confess her love for Brittany. Did I think it was rushed? Yes. While I was watching Brittany talk about going and talking to someone about her and Santana wasn't I confused about how it didn't make sense that we did not know that Santana and Brittany have been hooking up all this time? And how Santana hasn't showed the slightest amount of jealousy or hurt (over Brittany and Artie) apart from that one time in the lovely Duets? Yes yes yes to overall confusion. But I think what helps me, what makes me rush home and download an episode of Glee is its ability to move me even while all these doubts are swirling around in my head. I cried, cried while watching Santana, Brittany and Gwyneth, sorry Holly ( Didn't even notice she was there. Should have just allowed Santana to sing it. ) sing Landslide. Not only is it one of my favouritest Stevie Nick's songs ever, but Naya Rivera just killed it. Not the song- but the confusion, the heartbreaking confusion and the realisation that arrives on her face as she sang the song. That moment when you realise that you love someone and you're overwhelmed by what it does to you. She just killed it. I always thought she did bitchy really well and it's so much fun to watch her do that but it's so good to see her be capable of so much more.
I wish there had been more of a build up. I do. But Glee has this ability to make you believe and be affected by the little pockets-these little moments(like the amazingly realistic conversation between Kurt and his Dad) it captures where it portrays very emotionally real situations. And I think just for that I will continue to watch this show. Oh and is it just me but are there more and more shows getting into that wonderful world of sexual fluidity and queerness? Or are these just the shows that I am watching?
I watch a lot of TV and then I read a LOT about what I watch. I'm a geek like that. But anyway, I don't usually write about what I watch. I write a lot about the kind of music I like but somehow writing about the TV shows and movies I watch just hasn't happened.
Today however, as I watched the latest episode of Glee something about it just made me feel like writing. It was such a wildly inconsistent episode-with some things making sense and others just.. not. But it got me thinking further into why I watch it at all. A show like Glee can be so frustrating at times: It's a show with a popular format, it's got the ratings in its favour and it's also trying valiantly to do something new and fresh. It takes many many risks. But when it fails to do consistent story telling and bends to gimmicky plot contrivances I feel like hurling something at the screen. I really do.Because a show like Glee seems premised on a certain level of honesty or transparency with its audience so when it blatantly fails on its promise it's doubly disappointing. So at times like these I really do question why I bother with a show that isn't consistently satisfying.
Tonight I got a little glimpse into one of the reasons why I watch this show when in last night's episode "Sexy" I watched Santana confess her love for Brittany. Did I think it was rushed? Yes. While I was watching Brittany talk about going and talking to someone about her and Santana wasn't I confused about how it didn't make sense that we did not know that Santana and Brittany have been hooking up all this time? And how Santana hasn't showed the slightest amount of jealousy or hurt (over Brittany and Artie) apart from that one time in the lovely Duets? Yes yes yes to overall confusion. But I think what helps me, what makes me rush home and download an episode of Glee is its ability to move me even while all these doubts are swirling around in my head. I cried, cried while watching Santana, Brittany and Gwyneth, sorry Holly ( Didn't even notice she was there. Should have just allowed Santana to sing it. ) sing Landslide. Not only is it one of my favouritest Stevie Nick's songs ever, but Naya Rivera just killed it. Not the song- but the confusion, the heartbreaking confusion and the realisation that arrives on her face as she sang the song. That moment when you realise that you love someone and you're overwhelmed by what it does to you. She just killed it. I always thought she did bitchy really well and it's so much fun to watch her do that but it's so good to see her be capable of so much more.
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I wish there had been more of a build up. I do. But Glee has this ability to make you believe and be affected by the little pockets-these little moments(like the amazingly realistic conversation between Kurt and his Dad) it captures where it portrays very emotionally real situations. And I think just for that I will continue to watch this show. Oh and is it just me but are there more and more shows getting into that wonderful world of sexual fluidity and queerness? Or are these just the shows that I am watching?
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